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Prof. Dr. Alexey Tikhomirov

Prof. Dr. Alexey Tikhomirov

Acting Chair of Russia-Asia Studies during the 2026/27 winter semester

Contact

Address:
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Historisches Seminar der LMU
Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas
Lehrstuhl für Russland-Asien-Studien
Maria-Theresia-Str. 21
81675 München

Secretariat:
Katalin Iordanidis
Phone: +49 (0) 89 2180-1318
Email: Katalin.Iordanidis@lmu.de

Room: 006
Phone: (Secretariat) +49 (0) / 2180-1318; (Tikhomirov) +49 (0) / 2180-1319

Office hours:
Wednesdays, 11.00-12.00 (please make an appointment by email), and by appointment

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Research interests

New Political and Cultural History of Eastern Europe

  • History of Interconnections: the Eastern Bloc, Cross-Border Commuters and the Cold War
  • Global History of Communism: Symbolic Politics and Cults of Personality
  • Petitions, Appeals and Pleas: Pragmatic Writing

Research into Dictatorships and Democracy in the 20th and 21st Centuries

  • Sovietisation of Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War
  • Media and Communication
  • Perestroika and the ‘brief’ history of democracy in Russia
  • Globalisation of human rights in the 20th century

History of Emotions

  • First-person accounts, history of subjectivity and the self
  • Trust and mistrust in history
  • Gender history and the history of the body

History of violence and non-violence

  • History of Nazism and forced labour during the Second World War
  • The expulsion of Germans and practices of humiliation after 1945
  • History of psychiatry, telephone counselling and global mental health
  • Pre-modern foundations of modern statehood

History of migration

  • Material culture and objects of migration
  • Jewish migration from the Russian Empire to the ‘New World’ (1880–1920)
  • Border, legal and mobility regimes

Public history

  • Russia’s war against Ukraine
  • The ‘long’ Soviet century in history and the present
  • Autocratisation in the 20th and 21st centuries

CV and Publications

Current Research

In the Media